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...terms of raising money, women now tend todo as well as their male counterparts in similarsituations. But the power of incumbency is stillthe number one barrier to women or any newleadership," says Danowitz. "Their differentvoices aren't enough to break the shackles...
Bishops from India, Africa and particularly the newly liberated churches of Eastern Europe pointed out that their pressing problem is less the barrier of celibacy than how to house would-be priests and where to find the books and teachers to train them. "Do not make the mistake of thinking that our people in Africa do not know what celibacy is and would rather have their priests married," Bishop Norbert Wendelin Mtega of Tanzania told the synod. "They cannot imagine a Catholic priest who is married...
Although membership in exclusive clubs is by no means a barrier to political success-George Bush was a member of the Skull and Bones society in his days at Yale University--past involvement in such organizations has come under increasing public scrutiny in the past decade...
...Society of Arab Students (SAS) and I believe that the best goal we can achieve in our years at Harvard is to break the psychological barrier between Jews and Arabs on campus and try to advance one step beyond what our leaders failed to achieve...
...patients who need the drug most face a huge barrier: treatment costs nearly $9,000 a year. The drug is a patented product, available in the U.S. under the brand name Clozaril only from New Jersey-based Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Sandoz International of Basel, Switzerland. The company's explanation for the steep price is that clozapine occasionally causes fatal side effects, so patients must be required to have regular blood tests to make sure they are tolerating the drug. The expense of the tests pushes clozapine beyond the reach of the majority of schizophrenics, many of whom...